Summary of the content of Ms Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Diez A. Foliant nr. 57

Object identifier ARC_692
Tipologia Item
Data cronica
August 22 1924

Titles

Title
 Summary of the content of Ms Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Diez A. Foliant nr. 57
Type
supplied title

Description

Summary of the content of Ms Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Diez A. Foliant nr. 57. With the signature of Paul Kahle. The Ms Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Diez A. Foliant nr. 57 preserves a version of Pīrī Re’īs's «Kitāb-i Baḥriyye »(dated 932/1526). The copy was acquired in Istanbul by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in 1789, (supposedly destroyed during World War II but is safely in the collection), and copied beginning of seventeenth century. It contains 50 maps.

Publication notes

Publication notes
 «Pīrī Re’īs Baḥrīje. Das türkische Segelhandbuch für das Mittelländische Meer Vom Jahre 1521, herausgegeben, übersetzt und erklärt von Paul Kahle», vol. 1: Text. «Lieferung, Kapitel 1-28»; vol. 2: «Übersetzung», Berlin-Leipzig 1926.

Languages

German

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
1
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
314
Width
208